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To: elmatador who wrote (16942)	11/28/2001 2:57:55 PM
From: 49thMIMOMander	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 34857

Well, to cut is short, WAP is to avoid all those bloating overheads of "HTML", from the basic ones to the more recent uncompatible ones. Neither one very smart in a circuit switched limited enviroment, but WAP the basic way to make business, provide services, in a GPRS, or any radio packet enviroment where the (quickly changing, mobile) channel is shared. A third aspect is to have the protocol deeply embedded in bloathing WinCrash, nothing for regular users and doing secure banking without alt-ctrl-del. (major improvement of WimMe vs 98 was to crash more but reboot faster, maybe a very important strategy decision??) That is, when using WinDoze-and-Crash one has usually decided to sit for down a while in front of the desktop, mentally prepared to reboot and wait-wait-wait, spend (waste) some extra time. While on the mobile move it is a different user experience as well as demand, telephones are expected to work by just picking up the thing.. Unluckily all operators and SMS message manufacturers did not "get it", nor did Motorola later on get the idea of GPRS. And when left behind, one strategy left is to throw sticks and pebbles at the one in front. (the ancient finnish saying is "to throw sticks into the wheels", more modern is probably pebbles into the oiled steel machinery, Stalin was good at propaganda too) And finally the dot-com bubble, always new suckers for a new kind of Wall Street snake-oil. Ilmarinen Btw, one dot-com who did not go Wall-Street, recent documentary due to finnish connection: atomfilms.shockwave.com The (finnish) founder said some fun things about the peak of the bubble, IPO of Barbeque.com, reminded me of "Boston Chicken Systems" of the 80s.